Crunchy Black Chocolate Truffles
- 2/3 cup sour cream creme fraiche if available to you
- 1 3/16 tablespoons liquid honey
- 1 cup dark chocolate Valrhona Guanaja, 70% cocoa, chopped
- 2 1/8 tablespoons butter softened
- cookies
- crepe
- unsweetened cocoa
- Boil the cream and honey in a medium-sized saucepan.
- Pour 1/3 of the cream/honey on the chopped chocolate. Stir vigorously and then add the 2nd third. Stir, then add the remaining cream. You must obtain a smooth, shiny ganache.
- Add the softened butter and mix until completely absorbed.
- Pour into a flexible square mold 20X20 cm. Let cool for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator.
- Crush the Gavottes cookies in your fingers to turn them into small crumbs and set aside in a shallow dish.
- Pour the cocoa powder in a second shallow dish.
- Unmold the the truffle dough by flipping it onto a parchment paper.
- Cut into cubes with a large knife. This will allow you to make balls of equal size and to be faster.
- Roll the truffles between your palms and then coat them in cocoa or in Gavottes cookies.
- Let them cool in the refrigerator for a minimum of 2 hours.
- Take them out of the refrigerator 10 minutes before serving.
sour cream creme fraiche, liquid honey, dark chocolate, butter, cookies, crepe, cocoa
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Crunchy-Black-Chocolate-Truffles-781849 (may not work)